"Any time you burn a cross in Virginia, it's a crime?"
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"The Constitution promises liberty to all within its reach, a liberty that includes certain specific rights that allow persons, within a lawful realm, to define and express their identity."
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"A law imposing criminal penalties on protected speech is a stark example of speech suppression."
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"The Government may not suppress lawful speech as the means to suppress unlawful speech."
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"It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty."
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"Sometimes it is easy... to enhance your prestige by not exercising your responsibility, but that's not been the tradition of the court."
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"Some kinds of government regulation of private consensual homosexual behavior may face substantial constitutional challenge."
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"The court decided, based on its reading of our precedents, that the effects test of Lemon is violated whenever government action creates an identification of the state with a religion, or with religion in general, ...or when the effect of the governmental action is to endorse one religion over another, or to endorse religion in general."
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"When a juvenile offender commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity."
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"Family members have a personal stake in honoring and mourning their dead and objecting to unwarranted public exploitation that, by intruding upon their own grief, tends to degrade the rites and respect they seek to accord to the deceased person who was once their own."
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"There's a time for debate and a time for consensus. There's a time for advocacy and time for first principles."
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"In the political context fair means somebody that will vote for the unions or for the business. It can't mean that in the judicial context or we're in real trouble."
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"You have plaintiffs attorneys, you have defense attorneys. So there is no unified bar that will protect a particular judge who has made a courageous decision that's unpopular."
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"No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act."
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"There's substance to the point that sociological information is new. We have five years of information to weigh against 2,000 years of history or more."
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